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@that-one-birbie

They could never make me hate you, complex female character whose reaction to trauma was not pretty and digestible like how people think it should be.

Shoutout to weird girls who became weird boys and weird boys who became weird girls and weird girls and boys who became both or neither. Let's all be weird and strange together

Homura is just straight up one of the weirdest people imaginable. Like, forget about the time loop tragic doomed romance for a bit, I want to see what it looks like if she wins and then actually tries to romance Madoka. She has a massive collection of illegal firearms. She builds her own bombs. She lives in an ultra-modernist white box apartment that she's decorated with a couch made of concentric circles, a giant swinging knife pendulum to remind her of the ever-present flow of time, and a wall of several dozen screens. She communicates primarily in vague and ominous warnings and is more or less incapable of saying anything directly. She addresses everyone she meets by their full name with no honorific which comes across as bizarre and intimidating. If you count time loop years she's 26. She was raised in a catholic orphanage. I want to see her take Madoka on a horrifically bad date and cry in the bathroom partway through when she realizes she's fucking up

This is why Madoka is the ideal partner for Homura. Madoka meets a corkscrew-haired blond dual-toting rifles jumping into void portals to fight paper-mache nightmare manifestations, and instead of fleeing to the nearest authority figure in about a week she is down to enlist herself in the shadow games out of an explicitly-stated fit of "I have nothing better to do" pique. Homura would take her on a first date to a bomb-rigged shooting gallery in space where the targets are crucified porcelain dolls and it would be Madoka's new favorite game in five minutes. No one has ever been down for literally anything the way Madoka is.

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